Dwarfs are very upsetting
Poor Dinklage, can't get a break...
I'm going to see to Wesley, see if he's still whimpering.
Giles ,'Chosen'
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§ ita § - May 22, 2012 6:59:03 am PDT #20499 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
EpicTangent - May 22, 2012 7:00:41 am PDT #20500 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Thank you, Debet. Nice not to feel all alone. ::sniffle::
Loki never seemed to have any problem passing as a local, while Thor's lack of knowledge was played for hysterical laughs. Given what he clearly already knows about Earth, it wasn't hard for me to imagine he understands idiomatic English
I will take this handwave with me to my next viewing, thanks.
§ ita § - May 22, 2012 7:02:22 am PDT #20501 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Without establishing a mechanism in place to translate into High Asgardian, I can't find fault with it.
Zenkitty - May 22, 2012 7:04:27 am PDT #20502 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Epic, that stood out for me, but I can handwave it. Even without knowing what "red in the ledger" means literally, red is blood and she's not a nice person, he can figure out what she means when she says she wants the blood out of her whatsis.
Now I remember the dislodging in the coffin version, too. When I was a kid I always wondered, wouldn't she just suffocate in a glass coffin?
Also the too-tight lacing, and the poisoned comb--it's all coming back to me.
I don't remember those, though. I have a copy of Grimm's fairy tales around here somewhere.
le nubian - May 22, 2012 7:30:04 am PDT #20503 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Loki - re movie.
He seemed to know a helluva lot about the Avengers. Where did he acquire all of that knowledge?
Consuela - May 22, 2012 7:35:13 am PDT #20504 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
He seemed to know a helluva lot about the Avengers. Where did he acquire all of that knowledge?
From Clint, I assume. Or maybe watching through the Tesseract? I tend to assume that godlike aliens have special abilities to get information.
Jesse - May 22, 2012 7:41:30 am PDT #20505 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
One of the post-credit scenes in one of the movies had him lurking around SHIELD, didn't it?
EpicTangent - May 22, 2012 7:44:47 am PDT #20506 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Or maybe something to do with the after-credit scene from Thor? Maybe he wasn't tied exclusively to Skarsgaard's character, but could move about? Or Skarsgaard's character was unknowingly gathering info for him when Fury brought him in to S.H.I.E.L.D.?
eta post-credit x-post!
Consuela - May 22, 2012 7:46:33 am PDT #20507 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
One of the post-credit scenes in one of the movies had him lurking around SHIELD, didn't it?
Ah, I missed that. Makes sense.
§ ita § - May 22, 2012 7:48:35 am PDT #20508 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I tend to assume that godlike aliens have special abilities to get information.
Except for the protagonists, because they have to stumble through a get-to-know-us phase while the chick falls in love with them.